Eating concerns go beyond food, often affecting how you feel about your body, your emotions, relationships, and daily life. Thoughts about eating, weight, or appearance can become overwhelming. At Therapy Works Wonders, we provide a supportive, judgment-free space to explore these concerns, understand emotional and behavioral patterns, and identify the care and support that best fit your needs in Naperville, IL.
Concerns about food, weight, exercise, or body image can become difficult to separate from everyday life. You may spend a lot of time thinking about what you eat, avoiding certain foods, exercising to compensate for what you eat, or feeling distressed about changes in your body.
These patterns also affect how you socialize, participate in activities, manage school or work, and relate to others. You may find yourself avoiding meals with others, feeling anxious about eating in public, or becoming increasingly focused on rules around food and exercise.
You don’t have to dismiss these experiences simply because they don’t seem serious enough to deserve attention. Therapy Works Wonders provides a space to talk openly about what is happening and begin working through the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors affecting your life.
Eating disorder symptoms do not always look the same from the outside. You may continue going to school, working, exercising, spending time with friends, or keeping up with responsibilities while privately struggling with food and body image.
You may also notice that eating-related thoughts take up more of your attention or make certain situations difficult. Meals, restaurants, social events, vacations, sports, or changes in your routine can become sources of stress.
If these patterns are affecting your emotional well-being, relationships, school, work, or daily life, it may be time to talk with a professional. We can discuss what you are experiencing and help determine what type of support may be appropriate.
We will look at what tends to happen before and after difficult eating-related experiences. This helps identify patterns involving emotions, stress, relationships, or other situations.
Negative thoughts about your body can affect confidence, relationships, and everyday choices. Therapy provides space to work through self-criticism, comparison, and the pressure to look a certain way.
Eating-related behaviors can sometimes become ways of managing stress, anxiety, difficult emotions, or a sense of losing control. Therapy helps you develop other ways of responding to those experiences.
Shame and self-criticism can make it harder to talk openly about eating concerns. Therapy provides a space to work toward a less judgmental relationship with yourself and your experiences.
School pressure, friendships, social expectations, sports, and changes during adolescence can affect the way your teen feels about food and their body. Therapy can provide an age-appropriate space to talk about these experiences while considering the role of parents or caregivers when appropriate.
College, work, relationships, independence, and routine changes can affect eating patterns and body image. Therapy can provide space to work through these changes and the expectations that come with greater independence.
Work, relationships, parenting, stress, major life changes, and long-standing patterns can all affect your relationship with food and your body. Therapy can help you examine patterns that have become part of your everyday life and consider different ways of responding.
Sports can bring additional pressure around performance, weight, body composition, training, and nutrition. Therapy can provide a place to work through these pressures while considering how eating patterns and body image are affecting your relationship with your sport and everyday life.
Eating disorder treatment addresses the emotional, behavioral, and psychological patterns connected to eating disorders and disordered eating. Therapy can focus on food-related behaviors, body image, self-worth, emotional regulation, relationships, and other experiences affecting your everyday life.
The type and level of treatment needed can vary significantly from person to person. Your therapist can talk with you about what you are experiencing and whether outpatient therapy is appropriate.
Eating disorders can include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and other specified feeding or eating disorders. Symptoms and experiences vary, so you don’t need a specific diagnosis before talking with a professional about what you are experiencing.
No. You can reach out if you are struggling with food, eating, exercise, body image, or related thoughts and behaviors even if you have never received an eating disorder diagnosis.
An initial conversation helps you describe what has been happening and determine what type of support may be appropriate.
Yes. Eating disorders can affect adolescents, and early changes may sometimes appear in eating habits, exercise, mood, social behavior, or body image. Our therapists work with adolescents and can provide age-appropriate care while involving parents or caregivers when appropriate.
Yes. Eating concerns can occur alongside other emotional challenges, including anxiety and depression. If these symptoms are also affecting your everyday life, anxiety therapy or depression therapy may be relevant parts of your overall care.
Some eating disorders require more intensive medical or behavioral health treatment than outpatient therapy can provide. If you are experiencing significant physical symptoms, medical instability, severe restriction, frequent purging, or other serious symptoms, you may need evaluation by a medical professional or eating disorder treatment program. If you are in immediate danger or experiencing a medical emergency, seek emergency medical care.
Yes. We currently accept BCBS IL PPO, UnitedHealthcare/Optum PPO, Aetna PPO, and Cigna PPO. We also offer self-pay options and a sliding scale for eligible individuals.
Insurance coverage and out-of-pocket costs can vary by plan, so we recommend contacting our team to ask about coverage and payment options.
